Margo Sawyer has won the CoD+A (Collaboration of Design+Art) Award for best residential art installation (with project partners Lawrence W. Speck, architect, and Wendy Dunnam Tita, interior designer). The first…
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DMA Appoints New Assistant Curator of the Arts of the Americas
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonKimberly L. Jones has been appointed Assistant Curator of the Arts of the Americas at the Dallas Museum of Art, announced today by Director Maxwell L. Anderson. Dr. Jones will…
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In anticipation of the Nasher Sculpture Center’s exhibition of Nasher XChange, which is set to open in mid-October, the museum has been releasing details of each project one at a…
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Recently-Discovered Underground Cavern-Cathedral and Possible Awesome Art Space to be Presented in 3-D!
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThere have been a few incredible photos of what is now called the “Cistern” floating around this past year, but next week the Buffalo Bayou Partnership (BBP) and Architecture Center…
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Those who may suspect that the artists chosen for the 2013 Texas Biennial might just be flukes can check out two exhibitions this weekend to decide if past participants have…
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Stop Looking at Me! Downtown Dallas Acquires Giant Eyeball Sculpture
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonA giant human eyeball has arrived in downtown Dallas to be installed across the street from The Joule Hotel, whose impressive contemporary artwork collection was featured a couple months ago…
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Those who attended last week’s sold out Adult Lego Workshop at Houston’s Aurora Picture Show have mastered the art of stop-motion animation, with the help of the provided LEGOs and…
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The Commerce Street Artists Warehouse (CSAW), the legendary Houston art space, is attempting to collect some local art history by holding a recording session at the Art League on Tuesday,…
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Busy Day for Two Houston Artists: Performance and Award Ceremony
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonRobert Hodge, and Phillip Pyle II will be taking part in the final performance of the Coming Through the Gap in the Mountain on an Elephant exhibition at the University…
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The Nasher Sculpture Center announced the seventh project to be a part of Nasher XChange, a citywide, museum-organized public art exhibition in celebration of the Nasher’s 10th anniversary. The official…
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UH Faculty to Share Ten Years of a Curious Student Painting Assignment
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonFor ten years, Professors Aaron Parazette and Gael Stack have been handing their undergraduate painting students a simple but goofy assignment, conceived with the intention of directing attention to questions…
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People have been posing in front of the Greetings From Austin mural on South First Street since it was painted 15 years ago. Neighbors see it as a community landmark…
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Fresh Arts’ Annual Winter Holiday Art Market (WHAM) gets bigger every year and there is only one week left for artists to apply to participate in this year’s late November…
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Getty Museum Shares Thousands of Collection Images for Free Use
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonFinally admitting that the existence of technology, social media, and open source/open access is a fact of life rather than some conceptual interactive piece in a contemporary art exhibition, some…
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Houston artist Reginald Adams, co-founder and president of the Museum of Cultural Arts Houston (MOCAH), made national news this past year as the painter (and, by necessity, re-painter) of the…
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NY Times Hosts Old-Fashioned Essay Contest (for the Visual Arts)
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonThis summer, the New York Times has been publishing critical essays from various artistic disciplines alongside stories from readers. Next week, they will publish Holland Cotter’s essay on what inspired…
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DMA Announces Intriguing Museum Priorities: Art, Scholarship, and Conservation
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonWhile LACMA’s in-house restaurant recently launched a 45-page “Tasting Water” menu and hired a “water sommelier,” the Dallas Museum of Art is actually taking over half of its atrium restaurant…
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The ARTnews Top 200 Collectors issue, which came out today, features Jeanne and Michael L. (Mickey) Klein, who are among the nation’s foremost collectors and supporters of contemporary art. In…
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“Nonperforming Performance Artist” Solves a Small Mystery in Oswald/JFK Story
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonOn the upcoming 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, there has been renewed interest in the life and death of the President, such as the DMA’s thoughtful exhibition Hotel…
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It’s Still Shorts Weather in Texas: Austin Film Festival Celebrates
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonAs part of a celebration of its 20th anniversary, the Austin Film Festival has put together a retrospective of shorts that they’ve played throughout the years in An Evening of…